Quote Originally Posted by mishau_ View Post
Приданное, конечно, свежо, но вот верится как-то с трудом.
Ну, в качестве приданного, вот инфа 100%

Quote Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
In 1997 it was speculated that a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1.6 km (0.99 mi) contains more than $20 trillion USD worth of industrial and precious metals.[6][30] A comparatively small M-type asteroid with a mean diameter of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) could contain more than two billion metric tons of iron–nickel ore,[31] or two to three times the annual production of 2004.